Competition between Legal Publicity and the Press
Abstrak
This chapter discusses media coverage of public executions. When executions were still visible, starting in the second half of the nineteenth century, publicity most often took the shape of straightforward newspaper accounts. This was how most contemporaries had access to descriptions of the death penalty. The chapter continues that it is useful to start the analysis by looking at how executions were historically depicted in the press. The press played a large part in public debate: it gave executions a specific image that was shaped by its own professional standards and style. The press also sought to compete with the legal publicity regime in the hope of being the primary source of information once official publicity was eliminated. The chapter discusses the editorial templates in execution narratives, the stereotypes of the popular scandal, the “Troppmann Moment,” the illegitimate attitude of the crowd, and the newspapers' advocacy to eliminate the publicity of executions.
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Emmanuel Taïeb
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- 2020
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- DOI
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501750946.003.0002
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